Fusion Recognition of Space Targets With Micromotion

During the observation of micromotion targets in space, inverse synthetic aperture radar usually obtains the narrowband and wideband echoes simultaneously. In order to exploit their rich information in target electromagnetic scattering, shape, structure, and motion, this article proposes a recognition method of space micromotion targets based on decision fusion. The proposed method extracts physical features from the radar cross section and the joint time–frequency distribution from narrowband echoes, while extracts the data features from high-resolution range profiles and range-instantaneous-Doppler image by convolution neural network. Finally, particle swarm optimization is adopted to decision-level fusion so as to realize high-precision recognition. The recognition results of electromagnetic simulated data under various conditions have demonstrated the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.